| A | B |
| A. Philip Randolph | Civil Right's leader in 1940s |
| March on Washington | 1963 |
| Brown v. Board of Education | Topeka, Kansas |
| Rosa Parks | situation helped to spark bus boycott |
| Jesse Owens | 4 gold medals in 1936 Olympics |
| Thurgood Marshall | lawyer for Brown v. Board of Education |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | led march on Washington |
| Jackie Robinson | 1st African-American to play in the MLB |
| Freedom Rides | began in Washington D.C. and traveled South |
| President Truman | desegregation of military |
| President Eisenhower | desegregation of schools |
| Joe Louis | African-American Boxer in 1930s |
| Tuskegee Airmen | first black airmen |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Civil Rights Act 1964 |
| Greensboro, NC | sit-ins |